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Hello all!

My long distance partner recently renewed their B2 visa, and it's been a few weeks since there has been any updates to her application (a little over 3 weeks so far).

For context - they live in Tijuana, Mexico, they had an appointment on July 7th, 2025 to take a new picture and drop off their application (I'm unsure if this was considered a dropbox appointment). According to the CEAC status page, the case was created on July 9th, 2025 and the case was last updated on July 24th, 2025 and has been in the "Application Received" status since.

They have had a B2 Visa since they were little, and their parents did the application process/renewal for them, however this time they renewed it on their own. They're worried that there could be an issue with the application since it's taking long.

Has anybody experienced a long wait time for these sort of renewals?

this is my uncle's journey but i'm hands on with the whole process as well. he went and had his interview 8/4, we were already expecting to be placed on 221(g) due to pending sputum culture results to be received by 9/18. all went well other than his birth certificate. his mother (his petitioner) had a different maiden name than the rest of her paperwork. she's never used this maiden name on anything other than somehow it is on my uncle's birth certificate. now the immigration officer placed us on 221(g) pending:

• Marriage Documentation: Certificate of No marriage on Record-Listing mother's name as it appears on your birth certificate.
• Proof of relationship to your petitioner- additional documentation regarding the name of your petitioner on your birth certificate
• Early life documents, (i.e. Baptismal certificate, previously issued IDs and passport, school transcripts or similar records)

He should be able to get another CENOMAR exactly how it appears on his birth certificate

He is not able to obtain any other documents showing where that maiden name was ever used. These are to be uploaded to his CEAC and then mailed via 2Go along with his passport and culture results.

He went to the main municipal to see what are the possibilities of changing the mother's name to the correct one and they told him it would be a very long process because it isn't just spelling error, it is changing a whole name. It's very heartbreaking to feel like we were so close and then everything is like a domino effect. Anyone else have gone through this situation where it's impossible to obtain certain records they are requiring?

Hello, my fianc and I have been circulating through what we can find on Trump's deportation laws. My fianc lives in Ireland, and I live in Tennessee. We are wanting him to come over here and us get married here in the States. But with all the news reports of everybody getting deported, we are REALLY concerned and confused. When he was 18, (he is now 46,) he had overstayed by almost a year on his visa when he lived in Utah. But that was so long ago. He has since come over here on a tourist visa to see me and all, so we figured all was okay. However, with more news circulating around people getting deported for overstayed visas, it has us concerned. Surely, they would not have issued a tourist visit within the past couple of years for him to visit me here if there was an issue with it, right? Has or is anyone dealing with this and have some sort of feedback or advice?

Thank you in advance.

Hi Everyone,

I searched and found no forum discussions on the I-130 cases filed in June 2024. Please share your timeline and experience. May we soon hear the good news!! Good luck all!!!!

PD - 6/7/2024

NOA1 - 6/7/2024

Hi all,

In filling out the employment history on the I-485, my wife (then fiancee) left her job in China in May when she moved to the US. For the most recent employers, should we put "Unemployed" first (since she currently is) and then start listing her employers starting with her latest? Or should we just start with her latest when she was still in China and include that end date?

Thanks